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Earlier this week, Bulgari celebrated its 130th anniversary in New York City with an event hosted by Lynn Wyatt and Simon Doonan. In the run-up to the brand’s epic birthday, the Italian jewelry house rolled out a traveling retrospective that made its way to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and the de Young Museum of San Francisco with select pieces from Wyatt’s personal archive. And while Wyatt sported her own emerald stunner this week, she saved her most prized pearls of wisdom for a candid conversation with Doonan at Bulgari’s soirée. Read five of her best fashion quotables below.

Accessorizing is an art form, but mirrors help.“I think the mirror is your best friend,” says Wyatt, “and the mirror will tell you if you should take something off. I think you have to trust the mirror.”

On making a fashion statement“I had a moment that made me rethink what I was wearing. I was in Monaco and my husband and I were invited to the palace. We got there and Princess Grace’s lady-in-waiting came up and said to me, ‘You have on the same dress and outfit as Princess Grace!’ And I said, that’s great, I’m flattered. Then she said, ‘I’m very sorry but you’re going to have to go home and change.’ I told her our villa is thirty minutes away and she said, ‘Don’t worry, Princess Grace will wait for you.’ The dress was a Christian Dior by Marc Bohan and it was white with beautiful, brown flowers. She was so apologetic but at least we know we both have good taste.”

Wyatt’s style philosophy“Class with a bit of dash and never trash.”

Shopping is discipline.“I feel like I agonize over what to have made. I really thought about it because it’s a lot of money. I was with my mom and she said go pick out everything you think you like. So I had like twelve things in the dressing room and she said, now choose five. Choose five? She said, ‘That’s all you’re going to get.’ And that stayed with me until now. How many times am I going to wear this? You really have to think about it and train yourself.”

Fashion is war.“I think you have to have confidence in who you are and I think that clothes are sort of like an armor to prepare you for the public.”